Re: [PATCH 6/7] PCI: Make sure VF's driver get attached after PF's

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Wed May 22 2013 - 19:45:44 EST


On Wed, 2013-05-22 at 23:16 +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote:
[...]
> all in all, we will look into returning -EPROBE_DEFER from the VF
> when they identify the problematic situation -- so for how much time
> this is deferred? or if this isn't time based what the logical
> condition which once met the VF probe is attempted again?

My reading is that it will be retried as soon as the PF probe returns.
But I've never tried using this feature myself.

Ben.

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